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A life-size steel memorial sculpture of Wondai’s much-loved town emu Charlotte in Coronation Park on Mackenzie Street.
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Charlotte the Emu
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Site-level location · 26.3182° S, 151.8739° E
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The story
Charlotte was a real emu who walked down the main street of Wondai, and the town built her a statue after a car killed her.
She was a free-roaming, near-tame bird known by several names – Eric, Emmy, Moo, and finally Charlotte – who strolled through town on a regular basis and was a regular visitor at Forest View, where she delighted the elderly residents. She was photographed walking the main street, and when she was injured in a car accident in 2014 and had to be put down, she was mourned publicly, with people sharing their favourite memories of her online.
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Charlotte commemorates Wondai’s much-loved free-roaming emu, whose legacy is preserved by the statue in Coronation Park. Current Visit South Burnett material continues to identify the sculpture on Mackenzie Street.
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The statue is in public Coronation Park on Mackenzie Street. Use normal lawful town/park parking and approach through the park; the location is site-level because the available monument GPS is explicitly approximate.
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